**Unveiling the Rog Mothership: A Mobile Beast with Desktop Performance**

The Asus Rog Mothership is an astonishing mobile device that boasts impressive specs, including a six-core 9th Gen Intel Core i9 processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card. Despite its compact size, this machine packs a punch, making it suitable for demanding tasks like gaming, video editing, and more. The Rog Mothership's system-on-module (SoM) design allows the manufacturer to push the boundaries of performance, delivering a truly desktop-like experience in a mobile form factor.

**The Powerhouse Inside**

At the heart of the Rog Mothership lies the six-core 9th Gen Intel Core i9 processor, coupled with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card. This setup provides unparalleled performance for gaming, content creation, and other resource-intensive tasks. The processor's six cores enable smooth multitasking, while the RTX 2080 handles demanding graphics workloads with ease.

**The Network Connection**

One of the most significant features of the Rog Mothership is its network connection, boasting a staggering 2.5 Gbps Ethernet speed. This fast data transfer rate allows for seamless online gaming, video streaming, and file transfers. Additionally, the device supports Wi-Fi 6, ensuring reliable and efficient wireless connectivity.

**The Storage Solution**

The Rog Mothership features three NVMe SSDs in RAID 0 configuration, providing lightning-fast storage speeds of up to 8.7 Gbps. This enables rapid data transfer rates, making it ideal for applications that require fast storage, such as video editing and gaming.

**Cooling Solutions**

To mitigate the heat generated by its powerful components, Asus has implemented a comprehensive cooling system. The Rog Mothership features an impressive CNC-machined heat shield, which separates the display from the heat-generating components. This innovative design helps to keep the device's temperature in check, ensuring optimal performance and longevity.

**The Display**

Despite the Rog Mothership's impressive cooling solution, the display remains a concern due to its location near the heat-generating components. However, Asus has mitigated this issue by designing a sleek, compact display that minimizes thermal transfer.

**Aesthetic Appeal**

One of the most striking features of the Rog Mothership is its CNC-machined back panel, crafted from solid blocks of aluminum. The attention to detail and craftsmanship evident in this design element are truly remarkable, making the device an attractive addition to any workspace or gaming setup.

**Power and Connectivity**

The Rog Mothership boasts two power inputs, ensuring that users can power their device with ease. Additionally, the device features a VR port, SD card slot, and HDMI output, providing ample connectivity options for peripherals and external displays.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the Asus Rog Mothership is an extraordinary mobile device that delivers desktop-like performance in a compact form factor. With its impressive specs, innovative cooling solution, and sleek design, this device is sure to impress even the most discerning users. While its price tag may be steep, the Rog Mothership offers an unparalleled level of performance and convenience, making it an attractive option for those seeking a mobile powerhouse.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso right here to my left we've got the asus rog g703 and this thing it's pretty freaking sick like we were able to achieve five gigahertz overclocking all six cores concurrently but can you really call it a laptop when it doesn't fit on your lap and should we be making the sacrifices required to have a clamshell design for a machine like this when quite literally everyone is going to be using it on a desk well asus thought knot and over here at our early preview of ces 2019 here in our studio because asus brought the show to us is the rog mothership a complete rethinking of the desktop rep oh it's still heavy though the desktop replacement category private internet access i mean that's basically it that's exactly what you get with pia and it's got loads of other features as well check it out at the link below okay so uh i guess step one is to kind of open the thing oof i've been informed there are tabs on the bottom don't no no i don't want the answer no wait no those are a little like no i don't want the answer oh that's weird so here's all these vents on the bottom here with some very hefty looking dense copper fit wow all the copper everywhere look at this freaking stuff and this ventilated perforated bottom here and i was expecting that this thick side was going to contain the laptop and then this thin side was going to contain the screen that's like sort of the the way that laptops have sort of traditionally worked no that's that is in fact the keyboard so what the crap so this piece comes down here and then this is what speaker grills intakes what is this speakers speakers hell yeah oh my god it's a surface for gamers how about that so instead of having the cooling of the cpu the gpu the ssds and all that stuff choked out against the desk or your lap or whatever the case may be they put them all up here and the results well they claim they are pretty darn impressive am i allowed to turn this thing on i can turn it on okay oh my god it came apart uh you can use it as an aio and you can just ditch the keyboard and like or you can just use the keyboard as more like a traditional keyboard and it's raised so check this shiz out you can either just kind of adjust it for a different ergonomic feel you got your trackpad on the right you got your keyboard on the left and then you can run a type-c wire over to your your actual like aio computer with a screen that folds onto the front of it i don't know what to even call this thing anymore or you can just flip over to wireless mode here bippity bop and you can like use it from the couch and you can have that hooked up to your tv or whatever the case may be i mean it's a pretty common use case actually for a laptop i will find the power button at some point this must be it there we go all right okay this is a prototype it's not working 100 here just going to plug in this mouse it's having a little little freak out okay i'm not saying i broke it i'm just saying it's broken and i'm the last person who touched it that's all where was i so the original concept here actually came from basically like going like this with a g703 and then measuring how much better the temperatures of all those heat generating components are once you're not restricting the airflow by having them sitting up against something so in actuality this new device even if it did have the same hardware wouldn't necessarily run any cooler because they've gone and they've made it thinner to eat up that extra sort of thermal budget that they made for themselves which isn't to say they skimped on the components because what's in here requires some pretty hardcore cooling so it's rocking a six core core i9 8950 hk and rtx 2080 that they won't let me look at at all like not even in task manager they've actually gone and disabled it in the bios though given that we do know the model number and that is an rtx 2080 we're expecting full-blown desktop performance but computing isn't the only way that the rog mothership that's what they're actually calling this thing is insanely fast so this will be their first mobile machine with greater than one gigabit networking it's actually two and a half g which might feel kind of strange given that we went from ten to one hundred to one thousand 000 but then now also there's these weird in-betweeners but that's still a really nice bump that's about 250 megabytes per second real world to a server that is enabled for it so i mean it's not like you're going to have to do that necessarily because it's got three nvme ssds in raid 0 that also get additional cooling by the way due to the upright nature of the device so these are so fast that asus couldn't put all of them running off of the chipset so two of them are directly connected to the cpu for a wild 8.7 gigabytes per second of data transfer speeds i mean just like you know it's not the most impressive demo but you know just like booting up like launching it just like you will definitely feel the difference it's faster than i can say shaden freud i don't even know what that means what did i just say is this a like german joke i don't get it's taking pleasure in someone else's misery got it the only problem though with the display is that when you have all of these components right up against the back of it all that heat can be a very bad time so to solve this problem no wonder this thing is so heavy they created this cnc machined heat shield so this right here is what actually separates the display and all of the heat generating components and guess what this takes 20 hours to machine not to mention it costs a freaking lot of money but i guess you know the monkey was just out of the bag and the engineers went hog wild with the robots because actually pretty much everything about it this cnc machine out of solid freaking blocks of aluminum so this here is the back panel uh with the kickstand there uh where's the kickstand the kickstand ah yes i believe this is the kickstand listen to that thing is that not beautiful needless to say everything here there's a cost to cnc okay both in terms of materials and time but there's a benefit even without the actual laptop in it this thing is incredibly stiff like this is as much flex as i'd expect from a finished device and it's just a back plate so that's pretty much all we can say about it for now other than a quick look at i o you've got two power inputs so that should give you some idea how power hungry it's going to be you got your vr port here sd and hdmi all that good stuff other than to guess thunderbolt 3 nice that this thing is going to be extremely expensive so let me know you guys want to see a full review of this thing yeah you want to see a full review of this thing you know what alex i'm going to take away your desktop oh damn it why but i like my desktop right and so you're going to see if you can learn to like this and i'm taking away your laptop freshbooks is the small business accounting software custom built for how you want to work so if you're a small business owner or a freelancer freshbooks is a simple way to be more productive more organized and to get paid faster with freshbooks you can create and send professional looking invoices in less than 30 seconds you can set up online payments with just a couple of clicks to get paid up to four days faster you can see when your clients have seen your invoice to put an end to the back and forth and you can take the whole experience with you on the go with their fully featured apps for both ios and android so don't take my word for it try out freshbooks with an unrestricted 30-day free trial at freshbooks.com tech tips we're going to have that linked below that's freshbooks.com tech tips then make sure you enter linus tech tips in the how did you hear about us section so thanks for watching guys don't miss any of our ces 2019 content here at the show yeah can you believe i missed this part look at this they've got the cooling solution here it's like it's massive it's massive like this weighs as much as a laptop and there's no laptop in it yet good heavensso right here to my left we've got the asus rog g703 and this thing it's pretty freaking sick like we were able to achieve five gigahertz overclocking all six cores concurrently but can you really call it a laptop when it doesn't fit on your lap and should we be making the sacrifices required to have a clamshell design for a machine like this when quite literally everyone is going to be using it on a desk well asus thought knot and over here at our early preview of ces 2019 here in our studio because asus brought the show to us is the rog mothership a complete rethinking of the desktop rep oh it's still heavy though the desktop replacement category private internet access i mean that's basically it that's exactly what you get with pia and it's got loads of other features as well check it out at the link below okay so uh i guess step one is to kind of open the thing oof i've been informed there are tabs on the bottom don't no no i don't want the answer no wait no those are a little like no i don't want the answer oh that's weird so here's all these vents on the bottom here with some very hefty looking dense copper fit wow all the copper everywhere look at this freaking stuff and this ventilated perforated bottom here and i was expecting that this thick side was going to contain the laptop and then this thin side was going to contain the screen that's like sort of the the way that laptops have sort of traditionally worked no that's that is in fact the keyboard so what the crap so this piece comes down here and then this is what speaker grills intakes what is this speakers speakers hell yeah oh my god it's a surface for gamers how about that so instead of having the cooling of the cpu the gpu the ssds and all that stuff choked out against the desk or your lap or whatever the case may be they put them all up here and the results well they claim they are pretty darn impressive am i allowed to turn this thing on i can turn it on okay oh my god it came apart uh you can use it as an aio and you can just ditch the keyboard and like or you can just use the keyboard as more like a traditional keyboard and it's raised so check this shiz out you can either just kind of adjust it for a different ergonomic feel you got your trackpad on the right you got your keyboard on the left and then you can run a type-c wire over to your your actual like aio computer with a screen that folds onto the front of it i don't know what to even call this thing anymore or you can just flip over to wireless mode here bippity bop and you can like use it from the couch and you can have that hooked up to your tv or whatever the case may be i mean it's a pretty common use case actually for a laptop i will find the power button at some point this must be it there we go all right okay this is a prototype it's not working 100 here just going to plug in this mouse it's having a little little freak out okay i'm not saying i broke it i'm just saying it's broken and i'm the last person who touched it that's all where was i so the original concept here actually came from basically like going like this with a g703 and then measuring how much better the temperatures of all those heat generating components are once you're not restricting the airflow by having them sitting up against something so in actuality this new device even if it did have the same hardware wouldn't necessarily run any cooler because they've gone and they've made it thinner to eat up that extra sort of thermal budget that they made for themselves which isn't to say they skimped on the components because what's in here requires some pretty hardcore cooling so it's rocking a six core core i9 8950 hk and rtx 2080 that they won't let me look at at all like not even in task manager they've actually gone and disabled it in the bios though given that we do know the model number and that is an rtx 2080 we're expecting full-blown desktop performance but computing isn't the only way that the rog mothership that's what they're actually calling this thing is insanely fast so this will be their first mobile machine with greater than one gigabit networking it's actually two and a half g which might feel kind of strange given that we went from ten to one hundred to one thousand 000 but then now also there's these weird in-betweeners but that's still a really nice bump that's about 250 megabytes per second real world to a server that is enabled for it so i mean it's not like you're going to have to do that necessarily because it's got three nvme ssds in raid 0 that also get additional cooling by the way due to the upright nature of the device so these are so fast that asus couldn't put all of them running off of the chipset so two of them are directly connected to the cpu for a wild 8.7 gigabytes per second of data transfer speeds i mean just like you know it's not the most impressive demo but you know just like booting up like launching it just like you will definitely feel the difference it's faster than i can say shaden freud i don't even know what that means what did i just say is this a like german joke i don't get it's taking pleasure in someone else's misery got it the only problem though with the display is that when you have all of these components right up against the back of it all that heat can be a very bad time so to solve this problem no wonder this thing is so heavy they created this cnc machined heat shield so this right here is what actually separates the display and all of the heat generating components and guess what this takes 20 hours to machine not to mention it costs a freaking lot of money but i guess you know the monkey was just out of the bag and the engineers went hog wild with the robots because actually pretty much everything about it this cnc machine out of solid freaking blocks of aluminum so this here is the back panel uh with the kickstand there uh where's the kickstand the kickstand ah yes i believe this is the kickstand listen to that thing is that not beautiful needless to say everything here there's a cost to cnc okay both in terms of materials and time but there's a benefit even without the actual laptop in it this thing is incredibly stiff like this is as much flex as i'd expect from a finished device and it's just a back plate so that's pretty much all we can say about it for now other than a quick look at i o you've got two power inputs so that should give you some idea how power hungry it's going to be you got your vr port here sd and hdmi all that good stuff other than to guess thunderbolt 3 nice that this thing is going to be extremely expensive so let me know you guys want to see a full review of this thing yeah you want to see a full review of this thing you know what alex i'm going to take away your desktop oh damn it why but i like my desktop right and so you're going to see if you can learn to like this and i'm taking away your laptop freshbooks is the small business accounting software custom built for how you want to work so if you're a small business owner or a freelancer freshbooks is a simple way to be more productive more organized and to get paid faster with freshbooks you can create and send professional looking invoices in less than 30 seconds you can set up online payments with just a couple of clicks to get paid up to four days faster you can see when your clients have seen your invoice to put an end to the back and forth and you can take the whole experience with you on the go with their fully featured apps for both ios and android so don't take my word for it try out freshbooks with an unrestricted 30-day free trial at freshbooks.com tech tips we're going to have that linked below that's freshbooks.com tech tips then make sure you enter linus tech tips in the how did you hear about us section so thanks for watching guys don't miss any of our ces 2019 content here at the show yeah can you believe i missed this part look at this they've got the cooling solution here it's like it's massive it's massive like this weighs as much as a laptop and there's no laptop in it yet good heavens\n"